skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Bluesky announced they were taking on large amounts of capital to handle the growth that's when I knew their days were numbered. Capital requires returns, and a lot of the degradation of the user experience in the past few years is due to catering to investors and advertisers (who are the actual customers).

Decentralization as is promised is one way to mitigate this, but there's no economic incentive to go through with it. Investors will encourage Bluesky to kick that can down the road until people forgot they ever promised it in the first place.

That said, we will have a good amount of time with Bluesky as a more positive site before these changes kick in. But my hunch is that it'll be shorter than previous cycles. The rate of profit has fallen and investors don't have as much grace for companies that grow without revenue as they did 10-15 years ago.

Of all the sites that emerged out of the internet renaissance starting in the late 90's, it seems the only one that has hung on and still provides a good value, despite all it's issues, is Wikipedia. And that has to be because it's a non-profit powered by volunteer labor with no need to optimize revenue or make a profit.

I often dream of recreating the classic web using a very low cost subscription model (since cheap is better than free, because free is never truly free) and apps that are bootstrapped or crowdfunded instead of vc funded. Decentralization in that circumstance is much more achievable and way less of a threat, although it still comes with a ton of technical and political considerations.
People seem to want to pass laws that treat the symptoms, not the cause.

“You keep getting the stomach bug. Here take this, it’ll calm your stomach. No no, you can keep eating that expired cheese, it’s all good”
I don't see much point in continuing this conversation. I linked you to primary source data about who owns hospitals in the United States. You responded with some AI slop with absolutely no reliable citations.

I posted an analogy about the dynamic that exists between hospitals and doctors. You responded by saying that's a distinction without a difference, when the dynamic I described is a primary difference between the two groups: doctors can practice medicine without hospitals. Hospitals cannot provide patient care without doctors.
Also some BP medication that are ACE inhibitors cause cough.
You install it from them. Past the initial install they get OTA updates.

Having said that it doesn't prevent them to check the "enable network" option when installing apps.
In the USA there are many lawsuits and they could bankrupt you just by making a painful discovery.

Though Poland needs to modernize it's law.
It's not disingenuous, you just missed this part:

> but in some ways rust makes it easier to support multiple platforms than it is in c++

The ease of installing Rust on Windows has helped build a culture of cross-platform libraries/crates, and so it's significantly easier to build applications that support more platforms than C++.

Take a library for coloring text on a console, and chances are, it'll work on cmd.exe too (despite that not even using ANSI escape codes).

Take a library for loading other libraries, and it will load .so, .dll, and .dylib too, with feature-gated methods to deal with each platform's quirks.

Rust's standard library helps a bit, e.g. it isolates platform-specific modules into things like std::os::unix and std::os::windows, so it's a bit more obvious when you're trying to use something that won't work on all platforms.

However, it's more just a cultural thing; many Rust things work cross-platform now, people see how nice that is, and so people try to maintain the status quo.

With C++, you often need MSYS or Cygwin, and those have their own limitations; you can certainly make something in C++ that won't need them, it's just harder in comparison.
Right now Bluesky's feed is time-based (although there is a suggestions tab). This will change as advertiser needs take over, but at least for the time being it's a noticeable difference.
And that doesn't apply to the powers that be at other social networks (or management at Twitter pre-Elon)?
Well, then >95% of users won't be using $FEATURE. Simple as that. The fact that users for some reason no not consent to $FEATURE the way corporations/shareholders would want them to does not give anyone the right to stop asking for consent in the first place.
Unmapped Places of OpenStreetMap
In 1999 I worked at Yahoo! It was great the stock was flying, I worked on really cool tech writing C++ code. Then one day I went to a social dinner and a high schooler got up and made a speech and at one point said “I googled it”. Right then and there I know the gig was up.

So far I have not heard anyone say I GPT’d it, but Google is running very dangerously close to the edge here. For one thing the founders have checked out, never a good sign.

Something that also bugs people is GOOG wants to follow you everywhere, when you sign in to many websites that little blurb asking for your google account comes from a google server (<script src="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/client" async defer>).

I was responsible for servers that ran 100m page views a day at Yahoo! One day I was approached by this smarmy little guy who asked if he could pull logs from the machines. Alarm bells. Who the heck was this and what was he doing with the logs. I knew of course he worked for Filo and so I had to give over the data. This was the start of the spying on the customers. Google is a master of this, and it really irks a lot of their customers. Another red flag.

Alternates like duck duck go and brave have made some inroads. Their percentages are quite low still.

There have been layoffs in the name of cost cutting. Googlers have had some very public employee dissatisfaction meetings (my name for them). Employee compensation problems, problems with businesses the company is etc.

One last thing, Mark Cuban sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion April 1, 1999 (seriously!). “ Apollo Global Management acquired a 90% stake in Verizon Media, which included Yahoo and AOL, for $5 billion. Verizon retained a 10% stake in the new company, which was rebranded as Yahoo upon the deal's completion.” The deal was finalized Sept 1, 2021 according to chatGPT.
Twitter sucks because it's commercial. Threads sucks because it's commercial. Bluesky will suck because it's commercial.

If only there was a pattern we could detect.

Learn about the Fediverse (not just "Mastodon"), it's the only solution worthy of you.
Do gravel traps work with planes..?
I recall, pre-iPhone, sitting in a pub waiting for a friend to arrive, staring into the middle-distance. I noticed a young man sitting at the bar with a phone. He'd pick it up, check for messages, put it down, take a sip of beer then his leg would start to judder (he was on a bar stool), then repeat the whole thing. A cadence of around 45s. "What a weirdo" I thought to myself. Turns out I was the weirdo, heh.
Neither of those services are successful.

They don't make any money. They are, essentially, only useful learning experiences in what not to do.
I understand a blog on your own domain is your land in regard to microblogging platforms. But what would be my land in regard to community software, like Telegram or Discord?

Is there any software like this that I can host on my domain?
> Hence, not understanding Apple's technical explanation of an Apple feature you didn't opt in to sharing personal data

But this is the fundamental issue. The author has no idea if personal data is being shared, they’ve made an assumption based on their lack of understanding. It’s entirely possible that all this service does (and arguably likely), is provide a private way for your phone to query a large database of landmark fingerprints, then locally try and match those fingerprints to your photos.

It doesn’t require send up private data. The phone could perform large geographic queries (the size of countries) for batches of fingerprints to be cached locally for photo matching. The homographic encryption just provides an added layer of privacy, allowing the phone to make those queries in a manner that makes it impossible for Apple to know what regions were queried for.

iOS photos already uses databases to convert a photo location into an address, so you can do basic location based searching. That will involve doing lookups in Apple global address database, do you consider that a violation of people’s privacy?
Very late concurring comment:

Hikaru mentioned there had been drama between FIDE and himself about having cameras at the same tournament — and he felt FIDE refused to give him airtime on their streams. Hikaru also had drama with FIDE about the Freestyle league.

I think both happening at the same tournament, which they had threatened to boycott if FIDE didn’t permit them to also play Freestyle league, indicates this is political.
>There is a shortage of good tech workers.

I wish someone quantified what 'good' is. Ask 2 tech workers to rate each other and they are most likely to rate each other mediocre by each's standards. Each would nitpick on what the other didn't know.
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This seems like a rather poor excuse to not try and integrate with the Fediverse/mastodon. Yes, managing your own space is more complicated than using a manager solution, but like, isn't that always going to be the case?
“These sites are all as bad as each other” remains a very workable hypothesis.
I think it's a case where money / influence may indeed be flowing in both directions, but fundamentally the trains are working. Unless they experience the International Compressor Failure Day, or randomly clip GPS coordinates of a "dead zone" and simply refuse to move forward - but that just means some money hadn't flown where some crooked people expected it to flow.

One thing that is unclear to me is who is backing whom. The Left / Together Party backs our guys - no surprise there, all lefties love trains. But they are not such a big party in Poland, they can raise some ruckus in the media but I am not sure they can offer comprehensive legal/political backing in order to score a victory. They certainly would like to, it's a great story that would add them some voters.
This looks like your typical AI slop so it'll recommend tools that are already recommended across the Internet. Notice the AI slop image, no author attribution and the nonsensical and non-working "security" and "about" links at the top.

The cherry on top? https://x.com/thinkingbytes_/status/1873156252005781707
Most people nowadays use Web based apps, which don't even need to ask anything, who knows what server side is doing.

Which is kind of ironic in places like HN, where so many advocate for Chromebooks.
Matrix/Discourse? But like all self hosted solution, it's harder to use than a managed product. I think they're both excellent though, and pretty common in some circles.
I stil don't understand why none of these sites counts downvotes for their algorithm. Look at HN which does; the best comments are at the top which means that the user sees the more interesting posts first. And troll posts would never rise to the top. There's a lot of tinkering that could provide which is the best up/downvotes-algorithm but imo it simply does not work without downvoting. E.g. Tiktok allows a lot of options to downrank things that you do not like, meaning the user who curates his own feed gets a stream of posts that are more aligned with what he wants than anywhere else. And that's why TikTok won.
In fact if it's not a voice call it should probably be excluded, lol. I feel like semantically right now being on your phone refers to looking at the screen actively, even though that's very much not the origin of the phrase. Yet, nowadays the meaning of the phrase probably excluded when you're holding it to the side of your head, as you're not looking at a screen at all.
I'd vote for a party that said the only legal license is AGPL :D
You've probably realized, but this can be said the exact same way for both sides of the equation (see: location of worst victims of global warming).
That’s exactly what I mean. I never sleep much better than I would sleeping in a car.

I suppose it’s the novelty of sleeping in a moving vehicle, my flight attendant friend said it took them a while to start sleeping well on long haul flights.

Perhaps with a lot of benzodiazepines or drowsy anti-histamines I could attempt to sleep well in a sleeper train, but not normally. Happy for those who can of course.
As a person who completely switched to uv, I second that. I enjoy uv an order of magnitude more than I enjoyed pip, which in turn I enjoyed an order of magnitude more than Poetry.
As more mail servers use domain reputation to classify (accept/reject) incoming deliveries (helped with dmarc-like policies), messages from gmail.com will get a harder time getting delivered to mail servers they also try to deliver spam to.

This provides natural pressure for gmail to reduce their outgoing spam rate. I'm sure they do try to get outgoing spam down. Spammers are just a resourceful bunch...

Any large free email provider will have these problems. It's a reason to use your own domain for email, with your own reputation, instead of sharing your reputation with the whole world, including spammers.
This happens in every industry heavily interconnected with politics. An individual revealing fraud or corruption is subject to regular bullying and stalking or to SLAPP when the case has gained publicity. Only now the German and American standards have arrived to Poland, long awaited.
This is a good read, but the submission title should include [2020].
That's exactly what I was referring to when I mentioned speculation risk...

What did you think I meant by that?
> Sabotaging any infrastracture harms people. Transitioning to clean energy can be (and is being) sped up by actual peaceful actions.

It's entirely arbitrary to propose that only "peaceful" (an inherently relative term depending on your personal belief system) action can speed this up, while non-peaceful action cannot, that this property is a necessary requirement.

Unless of course your definition of "peaceful" is "thing that speeds up this transition". Would be pretty different from the average definition of the word, though.
> So why didn't Apple just simply ask for user permission to enable this feature?

That’s an interesting question. Something to consider, iOS photos has allowed you to search for photos using the address the photo was taken at. To do that requires the Photos app to take the lat/long of a photos location, and do a reverse-geo lookup to get a human understandable address. Something that pretty much always involves querying a global reverse-geo service.

Do you consider this feature to be a violation of your privacy, requiring an opt-in? If not, then how is a reverse-geo lookup service more private than a landmark lookup service?
I presume your cat is like all other cats and shits inside the house.

Get an automated food/water dispenser, save yourself some money.
Good summary. Wish I could upvote you many times over.
>“you’re telling me there’s a @choldgraf@hachyderm.io and a @choldgraf@mastodon.social and they’re two different people?!”

Yes, and choldgraf@gmail.com and choldgraf@ibm.com are different email-people, too. This is not a hard concept.
The basic difference that makes it slightly less of a deal than it looks like is - unlike in the US - the whole lawsuit costs in Poland are paid by the person that lost the case.

The issue is still having the money when you need them before you win, and the lost time and nerves. Even choosing 2 different courts in opposite sides of Poland is pointing at this tactic by Newag.
Don’t build castles in other peoples kingdoms

That is why I devote my energy to enriching my home file server with custom software that I can access anywhere via domain name mapped to a IPv6 address. It is my kingdom and its not going away. I can demo on there full stack applications that would be challenging to demo otherwise. If I had a blog on there I could say what I want. I could host a personal email address on there. I am exploring how to limit access by physical device identity so that it remains private even on the public internet.
Both are explicitly related to the web at large. Google sells ads on more than two million sites, and those mostly aim to be the kind of sites that feature in search results. I'd say that the two code bases are related, by virtue of operating on the same data structure.

You remember the pagerank paper? It described how Google classifies each page on a scale from "something that links to good pages" to "informative page". Google and other search engines produces links to the latter. And since then, web site operators have had strong incentives to be on the "informative page" end of the range. Today I don't think the 2000s code can find a lot of pages of the former kind (well, outside Facebook).

It produced very nice results back then. It was/is good code, but good results need more than just good code, it needs good input too.
If everyone had abided by rules and laws, the US would still have hard segregation laws, etc.
Social media orgs discovered a while back that what they want is "engagement", not "good content". Enraging content is as good as "good" content in terms of clicks, and downvotes would bury that enraging content.

Making you mad is as good as making you feel any other thing in terms of engagement.
Fediverse does not have to be doom scrolling if you just follow accounts around your hobbies and interests and filter certain keywords.
The blog post (and your comment) presumes someone is a celebrity, has a kingdom.

A lot of us are just busking on the street corners.
We had the exact same experience, still in love with fish!
I use none of these, and generally agree that the world would be a better place if we could magically get rid of all social media.

But Twitter is filled with much, much more hate and disinformation than its alternatives. I'd say it is definitely worse than the others.
Hundreds of comments, and this is the first one that mentions perhaps the primary root cause of the situation.
I think Mastodons API-centric approach has lead to user-friendly results that feel fundamentally different. Mastodon gives me an in-order timeline of just the accounts I follow. I configured it to hide images by default, reduce animations, and to require user action to load more posts (no infinite scroll). It feels so much more tuned to my well-being versus apps that are tuned to maximize adverisement views by trapping you in doom scrolling.
Garmin Varia Light Flash Pattern Ban Extended in EU
"The toxicity is coming from inside the house!"

I agree. These platforms are best when the communities are smaller. The main tipping point will be when it becomes perceived (just perceived, even) as a viable option for advertising/monetization.

The only real option is to just keep pushing to the next frontier...
It's quite interesting how much Musk's taking over Twitter damaged a lot of small businesses, where the person's personal brand on Twitter actually generated a decent amount of their business. What was even more interesting was seeing those semi-large accounts 20-100k followers move over to Bluesky post the same material on both but get more engagement on Bluesky with 1/10th of the audience.
But will anyone come?

Plenty of the people I follow, Jeff Geerling for example (hi!) have their own sites/kingdoms but I don't make the rounds of their personal sites every morning.
Yes, that’s a good example, and I share your concerns.

As an aside, I shudder thinking about what a heavily ‘SEO’d’ LLM experience would be like.
Not necessarily. I think it’s perfectly possible to be a random non-famous person that builds a following because they have insightful tweets/images/content. But the risk is that if you don’t give yourself a reasonably memorable publisher name, you won’t be able to transfer that audience to another platform, because no one is going to see your name and recognize it from elsewhere.
I've wondered the same.
Yeah? I’m saying I don’t get why the letter from the lawyer is unreasonable.

Sure, ideally it would have not been done via a lawyer but rather just asking them to delay going public directly since they were communicating before, but still it’s just three months after initial disclosure and they were actively making improvements and informing customers that they need to switch out hardware which I assume takes time, I think not wanting the researchers to go public just yet is pretty reasonable no?
Am I missing something?

As I said I’m not very familiar with security research stuff, maybe anything goes three months after disclosure, it just surprises me.

Also just to be clear: the work by the researchers here is super impressive, and it’s fantastic that they are doing it, I was just wondering about this disclosure process.
US DECT is 2.4 GHz, EU DECT has dedicated spectrum.
Also, roaming works butter smooth.
It's what's used often to provide cordless phone coverage to hospitals, for example.
I wonder if a tree blogs in an obscure, infrequently traveled forest will anyone read it?
I'm not trying to be rude but are you serious or being sarcastic? Because on here it could go either way. There are definitely people who would build everything themselves just because they can. And there are people who would mock someone for doing so.

If you're being serious, how much time does it take and how much custom software do you actually have?
yeah that's the story that I read a lot. But it doesn't make sense. E.g. I don't use Twitter because it's just a shitshow (e.g. even before Musk took over). Of course the algorithm from Twitter doesn't see it like that because it never analyzed me. It only analyzes those who are there not those who are not there. Thus, there's a hole in their algorithm. Or in other words: It's a short-termin optimizing algo (for those who are already there), not a long-term optimizer (long-term user growth).
> If only there was a pattern we could detect

https://briefs.video/videos/i-am-leaving/
The right size for any party (2012)
It’s very common for sports professionals not to have memorised the rules for every aspect of their sport.

They’re professionals because they understand the game and are in the top 1% of people who play it. Not because they are the best at memorising rules. The latter group are people
Who become umpires/referees instead.
But brief feedback is probably more likely to result in pushback / being sued by candidates, since candidates will feel like you didn’t properly consider them.

The sad truth of the situation is that all the incentives for a company point in the direction of giving no feedback at all. This isn’t because hiring managers are sociopaths.
I have a steelseries apex pro with an additional USB port. It doesn't have a hub, it is a separate port and the keyboard cable has two usb-a male plugs on the end.

I remember years ago having an apple keyboard that had a usb-a female on the side for the mouse. It wouldn't boot up with my mouse though, I suspect keyboard+mouse drew too much power. I had to run the mouse separate.